Good point. I think that while it might not have been popular with the mainstream anime viewer, shows like it (I’m thinking about stuff like Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, etc) have a small but very committed fandom.

Fair point about popularity! And Radiohead is always good for something.

But the MAL comment rubs me the wrong way, so i went and look at the top 37 (got tired after Chihayafuru). Given all the repeats, etc, it seems like about a third of the entries don’t have reps in the tournament, and maybe a quarter of them don’t have nominations (mostly Ghibli movies).

So I still stand by my original statement, if not also my second statement. 80 on MAL all time is already in the long tail of things.